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Name: Workplace Wellness that Works
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Author: Laura Putnam

Laura Putnam

10 Steps to Infuse Well-Being and Vitality into Any Organization

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Workplace Wellness that Works by Laura Putnam is a guide to creating a healthy, engaged, and productive workplace. It offers practical tips and case studies for implementing wellness programs that benefit both employees and employers.

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What’s in it for me? Get inspired to make your workplace a place to feel well!

We’ve all heard about health initiatives in the workplace. Some companies put out fruit baskets, others incentivize working out or using pedometers. These might seem better than companies that don’t offer any health initiatives at all, but workplace wellness isn’t just about fruits and pedometers.

Workplace wellness refers to any approach that allows employees to be more human at work. It’s about getting the opportunity to move more, to have fun and laugh on the job, to eat more natural foods, to build meaningful connections and to work towards a higher goal. It has more layers than just “being healthy” – it’s about feeling engaged, recognized and well at work.

In these blinks, you’ll discover

how putting family pictures on workers’ hard hats can increase security;
why Leonardo da Vinci should inspire your workplace wellness program; and
how OzForex’s global vacation program creates a sense of fairness.

To start heading towards workplace wellness you need to become an agent of change.

What do you associate with a healthy workplace? Picking up the occasional apple from the break room? David from Accounts trying to enlighten you on the perils of cigarette smoke?

Workplace wellness is much more than that: it’s about enjoying your work environment, moving around more and building meaningful connections with other people.

That sounds great, but how do you get there? By instigating a change process. When you take this initiative, you can become an agent of change for your workplace. This means understanding the reason for change and communicating it to others.

Agents of change know their inner why – the reason underpinning the change – and this helps make them authentic, persuasive leaders of the process.

Take Shane Valentine, who teaches for Kids Cook with Heart, a program offering cooking lessons to school children. Valentine’s inner why is that almost no children in the United States meet the American Heart Association’s Life’s Simple 7 criteria for a healthy heart. In response to this, his program specifically addresses the criteria for a healthy diet.

Once you have a why, you’ll need people to listen. Using metaphors and emotions is an effective way of communicating your message. To gain followers, you should focus on relating stories rather than regurgitating statistics. Start by building your own story bank, a collection of meaningful stories in your head.

The key is to make sure you embody your story. If Valentine were to star in a commercial for McDonald’s, his kids cooking program would suddenly lose credibility!

As a next step, you’ll need to build a strong case to convince your coworkers of the need to improve workplace wellness.

One approach could be to highlight any monetary gains that could be achieved by implementing workplace wellness. Take presenteeism, a money-draining phenomenon that occurs when your employees are at work but aren’t fully present, i.e., they’re either not working effectively or not working at all. According to a study at Bank One, 63 percent of costs connected with poor employee health are caused by presenteeism.

Create a vision of the desired final outcome of your well-being movement.

Do you know what Mikaela Shiffrin said before she won the gold medal for the slalom race at the 2014 Winter Olympics? “To everybody, this is my first Olympics. But to me it’s my thousandth.” She was referring to her vision; she had visualized the race over and over to build faith in her success, which enabled her to win. So how does this apply to workplace well-being?

Creating a vision allows you to believe in and realize a healthier workplace.

Getting to know the culture of your organization is crucial for your well-being movement.

Ever felt disengaged at the office? You’re not the only one! According to Gallup, 70 percent of the US workforce is disengaged at work. This is toxic for any work environment and costs around $450 billion per year. This isn’t good for any of us, but how can we tackle it?

Let’s look at workplace culture, the basis for your organization’s well-being movement.

To start your movement, look on the bright side.

If given the choice, which activity would you do first: something you’re bad at or something you’re good at? Most likely the latter! And that’s exactly where your wellness programs should start, too.

To get your movement off to a flying start: focus on strengths, both on the individual and organizational levels.

Use an interdisciplinary approach to start building your well-being movement.

Does your company offer healthy perks? In Berlin startups, for example, it’s normal to have free fruit in a communal eating area. But just offering healthy snacks doesn’t necessarily increase the overall well-being of your employees.

So how can you take your well-being movement to the next level? Take some advice from Leonardo da Vinci. Having been a painter, inventor, engineer and botanist (among other things), da Vinci is a symbol of interdisciplinarity and a fantastic inspiration for your movement.

Sneak well-being into your organization by renaming it or faking a withdrawal of your wellness idea.

Some people will roll their eyes at the mere mention of wellness initiatives: they just don’t buy into it or they mistake it for esoteric nonsense. So how can we convince them otherwise? Well, there are two ways to win over skeptics.

The first is renaming, and it’s the perfect way to sneak well-being into the workplace.

For lasting behavioral change, connect your well-being movement to basic human needs.

So you started with the easy things and slipped in your wellness program. Now, how can you maintain motivation? By instilling feelings of competency, autonomy and relatedness.

To make people feel competent, ask them to share their knowledge and experience. We all have insights and stories about what we do to feel good. Even a simple weight-loss story could be incredibly helpful to staff.

Use nudges and cues to make behavioral change last even longer.

Ever wondered about the fly stuck in the center of male urinals? This is what’s known as a nudge. This unassuming fly increases accuracy, as men will naturally aim for it when they use the facilities! What does that have to do with workplace wellness, you ask?

Nudges and cues are highly effective approaches to behavioral change. By making small adjustments to the environment according to your wellness initiative, nudges and cues coax us into behaving differently.

Some tips and tricks on launching and iterating your well-being movement.

You’ve recognized the downfalls of your workplace and shored up some fantastic health-boosting strategies. Now it’s time to launch your program. Take a look at the following tips and insights for the best way to jump-start your movement.

First, learning through doing and encouraging a growth mindset in your organization will ease your staff into your wellness program.

Going global gives your well-being movement another kick.

If you’re part of an international company, getting local staff to participate in your program is great, but what comes next? Starting to think big. Now it’s time to start spreading your movement throughout company branches all over the world. This can be best achieved by cultivating a global mindset in your organization.

The first part of this mindset involves unitizing standards inside your company. This can also increase well-being by encouraging a culture of fairness. OzForex is a great example of this. OzForex is a multinational foreign exchange company with headquarters in Australia and many international offices all over the globe. They decided, in accordance with the normal and guaranteed four weeks of holidays in Australia, that they would start offering these holidays to all offices throughout the organization so that all employees could benefit from it.

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Workplace Wellness That Works (2015) provides a refreshing take on how to create more well-being in any organization. It offers a 10-step guide packed with practical examples from the business world on how to initiate, expand and sustain your well-being movement.

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Your task is to courageously move forward with sparking a movement of well-being within your organization.

—Laura Putnam

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Über den Autor

Laura Putnam is the founder and CEO of Motion Infusion, a well-being consultation firm. As well as being heavily involved in the American Heart Association, Putnam is a trainer, dancer and consultant, and works with nonprofit organizations, academic institutions and Fortune 500 companies.

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